Somewhat tangential to the sequence itself, I’m pretty interested in the idea of using non-linear structure to explain stuff, especially in math. Section titles and footnotes can function like that, but to a really limited degree. I think Arbital has somewhat of a hierarchical structure? But I’ve never seen it taken far.
https://www.kialo.com/ lets people build debates on controversial topics in a heirarchical structure (more like stock debate, with both sides providing arguments), but doesn’t seem to have been used for explanations/arguments. I’d also be pretty interested to see more attempts at heirarchical explanations.
Somewhat tangential to the sequence itself, I’m pretty interested in the idea of using non-linear structure to explain stuff, especially in math. Section titles and footnotes can function like that, but to a really limited degree. I think Arbital has somewhat of a hierarchical structure? But I’ve never seen it taken far.
Does anyone have strong feelings about this?
Isn’t wikipedia nonlinear? It says “A because of B and C and D”. Then if you’re confused about C, you click the C link and read the C article. Right?
Yeah, I guess it’s hierarchical on the level of articles, although each article is linear.
And I would argue the hierarchical structure is a big asset.
https://www.kialo.com/ lets people build debates on controversial topics in a heirarchical structure (more like stock debate, with both sides providing arguments), but doesn’t seem to have been used for explanations/arguments. I’d also be pretty interested to see more attempts at heirarchical explanations.